Research projects until 2009

Control of Electrical Drives

  • Process integrated linear drives (Benavides, Leidhold)
  • Totally distributed system of linear drives for material handling applications (Silaghiu)
  • Position acquisition for linear direct drives equipped with passive movers (Mihalachi)
  • Fault tolerant VSI for drives and its control (Errabelli)
  • Energy saving control of variable speed ac-motor drives using neuro-fuzzy approaches (Hussein)
  • High performance control of a Direct Drive (Weigel)
  • Highly accurate and dynamic acquisition of the mechanical system state of electrical motors (Bähr, Müller)
  • Dynamic control algorithm of inducation machines (Faßnacht, Flach, Probst)
  • Closed loop control for feed drive systems (Doenitz, Singer)
  • Direct speed control
  • Previous works in control of electrical drives since 1991

Research on power converter topology

  • Interaction between switching transients and gate drive of power semiconductors with Hf-currents and voltages in VSI- fed drives (Purcarea)
  • Energy efficient converter-fed drives (Kedarisetti)
  • Controlling voltage source converters with minimal energy storage (Lamsahel)
  • Resonant switched Voltage Source Inverter (Bachmann, Bornhardt)
  • Resonant switched Voltage Source Inverter (Stier)
  • Matrix-Umrichter (Marcks)
  • Three-level-Inverter (Kehl)

Power converters and control in the field of renewable energy and energy transmission

  • Photovoltaics (Warmbier, Hinz, Meinhardt)
  • Wind energy (Hoffmann)
  • High voltage DC transmission (HVDC) (Lipphardt, Zong)

Other applications of power converters

  • Low-expenditure dynamic actuators for safety related applications (Krautstrunk)
  • Traction (Song, Keil, Wang)
  • Switched mode power supplies (Huth, Emsermann)
  • Contactless Power Transmission (Knaup)

Communication and simulation

  • Simulation of power electronic circuits and machines (Anschütz)
  • Real-time communication of drives (SERCOS) (Schultze, Gick)
  • Real-time model (Gallenkamp)